Don’t sell your PVCs, rights group tells voters

Elligible voters have been urged to resist selling their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) to politicians or casting votes along ethnic lines.

Executive Director of Centre for the Vulnerable and the Underprivileged (CENTREP), Oghenejabor Ikimi, gave the warning in a statement.

Ikimi allayed fears of possible breakdown of law and order during the electioneering process, saying Nigerians were now better informed on national issues.

The rights group appealed to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the security agencies to be “neutral in carrying out their duties prior to, during and after the elections”.

It called on politicians and political parties to resist the lures of election malpractices.

On threats of violence, if candidates of some political parties lose in the elections, the group described the threats as empty. It noted that “Nigeria is bigger than individual candidates and their parties”.